A benefit for OCM and the Open Door Clinic.

This Valentine's Eve, OCM will glow with love and light as stars of the OCM stage, Olga Perez Flora and Jamie Flora, present a program of Latin American and Spanish song, joined by pianist Melissa Yanchak and guitarist Daniel Gaviria.

This special evening celebrates Valentine's Day while giving back to the community, with 10% of all proceeds benefiting the Open Door Clinic, providing medical care to our under- or un-insured community members. Let us whisk you away to warmer, sultry climes with soul-stirring music, delicious hors d'oeuvres, and tropical cocktails at the open bar.

Choose the experience that suits you best:

• Theater Seating: $85 / $150 Generous Ticket*

• Table Seating: $125 / $250 Generous Ticket*

• Buy a Table (4 Guests): $400 / $700 Generous Ticket*

*A portion of each Generous Ticket is tax deductible.

Celebrate love, friendship, and the power of music—while supporting two local organizations doing vital work. This is a Valentine’s evening you won’t want to miss.

Artist Bios:
Cuban-American mezzo-soprano Olga Perez Flora has earned acclaim for her “smoky tones,” as praised by Opera News. Celebrated for her riveting portrayal of Carmen—including her debut with Amarillo Opera—she brings depth and charisma to every role. Dr. Flora has performed with opera companies and symphonies across the U.S. and abroad, most recently as Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti with OCM, Anita in West Side Story with Indianapolis Opera, and as soloist in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Louisiana Philharmonic. Upcoming engagements include her Carnegie Hall debut as the mezzo-soprano soloist in W.A. Mozart’s Coronation Mass this April, West Side Story at the Redlands Bowl this summer, and a return to Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra in 2027. Other highlights include Carmen and Before Night Falls with Opera Southwest, her debut album Canciones de mi Corazón celebrating Cuban classical music, and podcast co-hosting duties on Santa Fe Opera’s Key Change. Other OCM productions include Michael Ching’s Completing the Picture, Eugene Onegin, La Traviata, Dido and Aeneas, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Dr. Flora is Associate Professor of Voice and Head of Voice at the University of New Mexico where she resides with a tenor and two daughters. She is thrilled to return to her opera company home, OCM! https://olgaperezflora.squarespace.com/welcome

American tenor James Flora, hailed for his “resonant, impeccably trained voice and fearlessness to his singing,” has received acclaim in repertoire ranging from Verdi and Wagner to works by Carlisle Floyd and Daron Hagen where he sang Louis Sullivan from Hagen’s Shining Brow at Frank Lloyd Wright’s 20th century masterpiece: Fallingwater. James has sung with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus under Maestro Donald Palumbo in recent productions of Die Meistersinger von Nürenberg and Fidelio. He made his Pittsburgh Opera debut as Fenton in Falstaff, and has since returned for seven productions, including Carmen, Turandot, Lucia di Lammermoor, and most recently as 2nd Jew alongside the Salome of Patricia Racette. James has performed leading roles in opera companies across the United States, including Alfredo (La Traviata), Tamino (The Magic Flute), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Don José (Carmen), and Cavaradossi (Tosca) and Mitch (A Streetcar Named Desire) appearing with companies including Washington Concert Opera, Arizona Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Company Middlebury, Opera Columbus and others. Equally at home on the symphonic stage, he has sung with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Reno Philharmonic, Erie Chamber Orchestra, and Buffalo Philharmonic, and recently with the La Voz Humana: Lenguajes Múltiples festival in Cuba with Maestro Leo Brouwer. Recently, James sang the tenor solos in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Louisiana Philharmonic. He will sing Dick Johnson in Livermore Valley Opera’s 35th  Anniversary production of La fanciulla del West. James was a Young American Artist with Glimmerglass Opera, a Resident Artist with Pittsburgh Opera, and a Marion Roose Pullin Studio Artist with Arizona Opera. In 2010, James was a Richard Tucker finalist. He holds voice degrees from The Ohio State University (BM) and Florida State University (MM). James serves as Assistant Professor of Voice at University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM where he makes his home with his wife, Dr. Olga Perez Flora, and their two children, Lucia and Ella. https://www.jamesfloratenor.com/

Melissa Yanchak serves as Resident Music Director for Binghamton University's Department of Theatre as part of the inaugural faculty team for their new BFA Musical Theatre program. Previously, she has held faculty positions in the Musical Theatre programs at Penn State University, Wright State University, and was on staff at Point Park University's Conservatory of Performing Arts. As a music director, conductor, vocal coach, and pianist, Melissa has worked with companies nationwide including Pittsburgh CLO, Work Light Productions (National Tour: Cinderella), Tuacahn Center for the Arts, Summer Stock Austin, Florida Studio Theatre, The Human Race Theatre, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Feld Entertainment (National Tour: Ringling Bros Circus), and Music Theatre Wichita.

Daniel Gaviria has enjoyed a multifaceted career. He received his professional degree in classical guitar from the Central University in Bogota, Colombia, where he began his parallel careers as a solo performer, chamber musician and teacher. A winner and finalist of several national guitar competitions, he first came to the United States to participate in the Mannes Guitar Seminar, then later moved to Vermont in 2013. Drawing on his experience of classical Latin American guitar repertoire, as well as his many performances of more Colombian traditional music, Daniel quickly became a sought-out collaborator with renowned musicians from Vermont as well as with chamber orchestras, ensembles, choruses and in musical theater performances with symphonic orchestras, theaters and schools. Most recently Daniel played with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra in ‘Oklahoma’ and featured as a mandolinist in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. He enjoys a great cup of coffee, coding and practicing mandolin.

Saturday, February 7 at 1pm
Encore in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Pre-show talk at 12:15pm with Larry Hamberlin
Estimated run time: 3 hours with one intermission

Due to critical acclaim and overwhelming audience response, the Met-premiere production of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, recorded live earlier this season, has been added to the Live in HD lineup. This exhilarating operatic adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, follows the story of two Jewish cousins who unlock a new avenue of resistance against tyranny through the world of superheroes during World War II. The production by Tony Award–winning director Bartlett Sher provides spectacular visuals with towering sets and projections among the three worlds of the story: Nazi-occupied Prague, the bustling streets of New York City, and the technicolor realm of comic-book fantasy. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mason Bates’s eclectic, cinematic score, which incorporates scintillating electronic elements and a variety of musical styles. The New York scenes feature inflections of jazz and big band, the music for Prague is noticeably darker and more somber, and the composer’s trademark use of electronica reaches its full fruition in the scenes set in the comic-book realm.

Our pre-show speaker, Middlebury College Professor Emeritus Larry Hamberlin, is a author of The Curious Listener and Tin Pan Opera: Operatic Novelties in the Ragtime Era.

The Dido & Aeneas Project returns!

Champlain Valley Union High School’s winter concert will be dedicated to Dido & Aeneas in an abridged, fully-staged production in collaboration with the Latin department. 'This project brings together students from across Vermont to perform Purcell’s iconic work.

No tickets required. Donations encouraged at the door.

Bellini’s I PURITANI

Saturday, January 10 at 1:00pm
LIVE in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Pre-show talk at 12:15 pm with Nathaniel Lew, OCM Chorus Master, Artistic Director of the Counterpoint Vocal Ensemble, and Professor Emeritus of Music at Saint Michael's College
Estimated run tIme: 3 hours, 45 minutes with one intermission

For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. This is the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years with a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer. The Met has assembled a world-beating quartet of stars, conducted by Marco Armiliato, for the demanding principal roles. Soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, with baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira’s sympathetic uncle, Giorgio.

Giordano’s ANDREA CHÉNIER

Saturday, December 13 at 1:00pm
LIVE in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Pre-show talk at 12:15pm
Estimated run time: 3 hours, 30 minutes with two intermissions

Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora in the 2022–23 Live in HD season, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates. Met Principal Guest Conductor Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to lead Nicolas Joël’s gripping staging.

On November 29 and 30, Opera Company of Middlebury’s Youth Opera Company (YOC) presents its fall after-school workshop production, The Cabaret on 46th, a lively new cabaret-style production performed by eight young singers representing five high schools across Vermont. Set in a vibrant New York City cabaret catering to the international diplomatic corps of the United Nations, The Cabaret on 46th follows a cast thrown into an unexpected last-minute rehearsal just hours before opening night. In the scramble, surprising opportunities emerge, hidden talents shine, and the bittersweet twists of unrequited love come to the forefront. The production features an eclectic repertoire spanning cabaret, musical theater, operetta, and zarzuela, performed in French, Italian, Spanish, German, and English. Audiences will recognize classic musical theater selections, such as “Willkommen” from Cabaret, universally beloved songs such as “La vie en Rose” and the infectious joy of Offenbach’s Cancan!

The production is led from the piano by Youth Opera Company Music Director Mary Jane Austin, with story and stage direction by Opera Company of Middlebury’s General Director, Sarah Cullins.

Pay what you can. Suggested donation: $20/adult, Under 26 come free!

On November 29 and 30, Opera Company of Middlebury’s Youth Opera Company (YOC) presents its fall after-school workshop production, The Cabaret on 46th, a lively new cabaret-style production performed by eight young singers representing five high schools across Vermont. Set in a vibrant New York City cabaret catering to the international diplomatic corps of the United Nations, The Cabaret on 46th follows a cast thrown into an unexpected last-minute rehearsal just hours before opening night. In the scramble, surprising opportunities emerge, hidden talents shine, and the bittersweet twists of unrequited love come to the forefront. The production features an eclectic repertoire spanning cabaret, musical theater, operetta, and zarzuela, performed in French, Italian, Spanish, German, and English. Audiences will recognize classic musical theater selections, such as “Willkommen” from Cabaret, universally beloved songs such as “La vie en Rose” and the infectious joy of Offenbach’s Cancan!

The production is led from the piano by Youth Opera Company Music Director Mary Jane Austin, with story and stage direction by Opera Company of Middlebury’s General Director, Sarah Cullins.

Pay what you can. Suggested donation: $20/adult, Under 26 come free!

On November 29 and 30, Opera Company of Middlebury’s Youth Opera Company (YOC) presents its fall after-school workshop production, The Cabaret on 46th, a lively new cabaret-style production performed by eight young singers representing five high schools across Vermont. Set in a vibrant New York City cabaret catering to the international diplomatic corps of the United Nations, The Cabaret on 46th follows a cast thrown into an unexpected last-minute rehearsal just hours before opening night. In the scramble, surprising opportunities emerge, hidden talents shine, and the bittersweet twists of unrequited love come to the forefront. The production features an eclectic repertoire spanning cabaret, musical theater, operetta, and zarzuela, performed in French, Italian, Spanish, German, and English. Audiences will recognize classic musical theater selections, such as “Willkommen” from Cabaret, universally beloved songs such as “La vie en Rose” and the infectious joy of Offenbach’s Cancan!

The production is led from the piano by Youth Opera Company Music Director Mary Jane Austin, with story and stage direction by Opera Company of Middlebury’s General Director, Sarah Cullins.

Pay what you can. Suggested donation: $20/adult, Under 26 come free!

Strauss’s ARABELLA

Saturday, November 22 at 1:00pm
LIVE in the main theater at Town Hall Theater
Pre-show talk by OCM Board Member David Clark at 12:15pm
Estimated run time: 4 hours, 10 minutes with two intermissions

Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet. Nicholas Carter conducts.

Puccini’s LA BOHÈME

Saturday, November 8 at 1:00pm
LIVE in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Pre-show talk by Jerome Shedd, OCM Board Member and accomplished composer, at 12:15pm
Estimated run time: 3 hours, 30 minutes with two intermissions

With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Soprano Juliana Grigoryan is the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso as the ardent poet Rodolfo. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts.

Bellini’s LA SONNAMBULA

Saturday, October 25 at 1:00pm
Encore in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Estimated run time: 3 hours, 15 minutes with one intermission

Following triumphant Live in HD performances in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. In his new production, Rolando Villazón—the tenor who has embarked on a brilliant second career as a director—retains the opera’s original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its somnambulant plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind. Tenor Xabier Anduaga co-stars as Amina’s fiancé, Elvino, alongside soprano Sydney Mancasola as her rival, Lisa, and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Count Rodolfo. Riccardo Frizza takes the podium for one of opera’s most ravishing works.

Pre-show talk information to come!

Opera Company of Middlebury presents…

The Bernstein Songbook + Trouble in Tahiti

This special evening begins with an exploration of Leonard Bernstein’s Broadway musicals, from On the Town (1944) through Candide (1956) and West Side Story (1957), and culminates in a full production with orchestra of his rarely seen witty jazz-infused one-act opera, Trouble in Tahiti, that paints a sharp, satirical portrait of 1950s suburban life.

Pre-show talk by Dr. Danielle Simon, OCM Board member and Assistant Professor of Music at Middlebury College at 1:00pm.

Meet the Trouble in Tahiti cast here!

Reserved ticket prices: $61, $77, $88

Tickets on sale now!

Under the age of 26? Check out our Opera Under 26 program to learn how to get free tickets to the opera!

Join us for a pre-show talk before The Bernstein Songbook + Trouble in Tahiti given by Dr. Danielle Simon, OCM Board Member and Assistant Professor of Music at Middlebury College!

1:00pm pre-show talk, 2:00pm performance begins

Free with admission to any festival event.

Tickets on sale now!

Opera Company of Middlebury presents…

The Bernstein Songbook + Trouble in Tahiti

This special evening begins with an exploration of Leonard Bernstein’s Broadway musicals, from On the Town (1944) through Candide (1956) and West Side Story (1957), and culminates in a full production with orchestra of his rarely seen witty jazz-infused one-act opera, Trouble in Tahiti, that paints a sharp, satirical portrait of 1950s suburban life.

Pre-show talk by Helen Lyons, OCM Board member and Music Manager at Vermont Public at 1:00pm.

Meet the Trouble in Tahiti cast here!

Reserved ticket prices: $61, $77, $88

Tickets on sale now!

Under the age of 26? Check out our Opera Under 26 program to learn how to get free tickets to the opera!

Join us for a pre-show talk before The Bernstein Songbook + Trouble in Tahiti given by Helen Lyons, OCM Board Member and Music Manager at Vermont Public!

1:00pm pre-show talk, 2:00pm performance begins

Free with admission to any festival event.

Tickets on sale now!

Opera Company of Middlebury presents…

The Bernstein Songbook + Trouble in Tahiti

This special evening begins with an exploration of Leonard Bernstein’s Broadway musicals, from On the Town (1944) through Candide (1956) and West Side Story (1957), and culminates in a full production with orchestra of his rarely seen witty jazz-infused one-act opera, Trouble in Tahiti, that paints a sharp, satirical portrait of 1950s suburban life. Prosecco reception to follow.

Pre-show talk by OCM Chorus Master Nathaniel Lew at 6:30pm.

Meet the Trouble in Tahiti cast here!

Reserved ticket prices: $61, $77, $88

Tickets on sale now!

Under the age of 26? Check out our Opera Under 26 program to learn how to get free tickets to the opera!

Join us for a pre-show talk before The Bernstein Songbook + Trouble in Tahiti given by OCM Chorus Master Nathaniel Lew!

6:30pm pre-show talk, 7:30pm performance begins

Free with admission to any festival event.

Tickets on sale now!

Join us for a screening of OCM’s acclaimed film of our 2021 production of Candide with a special pre-show talk given by OCM Artistic Director Douglas Anderson before the event!

The Opera Company of Middlebury’s Candide has thrilled people all over the world. During the height of the pandemic, when a live production was impossible, OCM used state-of-the art tricks of cinema magic to create a visually stunning landscape for Bernstein’s comic operetta. Watch the trailer here.

6:30pm bar/doors open, 7:00pm pre-show talk, 7:30pm screening begins

$20/$40 reserved seating

Tickets on sale now!

Under the age of 26? Check out our Opera Under 26 program to learn how to get free tickets to the opera!

Join us for a pre-show talk before our screening of OCM’s acclaimed 2021 film of Candide given by OCM Artistic Director Douglas Anderson!

6:30pm bar/doors open, 7:00pm pre-show talk, 7:30pm screening begins

Free with admission to any festival event.

Tickets on sale now!

Join us for a screening of the 1961 film West Side Story with a special pre-show talk given by OCM Artistic Director Douglas Anderson before the event! This classic movie musical is a cinematic masterpiece - watch the original MGM trailer.

6:30pm bar/doors open, 7:00pm pre-show talk, 7:30pm screening begins

$10 admission

Tickets on sale now!

Under the age of 26? Check out our Opera Under 26 program to learn how to get free tickets to the opera!

Join us for a pre-show talk before our screening of the 1961 film West Side Story given by OCM Artistic Director Douglas Anderson!

6:30pm bar/doors open, 7:00pm pre-show talk, 7:30pm screening begins

Free with admission to any festival event.

Tickets on sale now!

Join us as we open A Bernstein Festival with a festive toast of prosecco and light refreshments, followed by a pre-show talk from OCM Music Director Filippo Ciabatti, who will share a conductor’s insight into Leonard Bernstein’s extraordinary life and legacy. The evening’s main feature is the acclaimed 1993 documentary Leonard Bernstein: The Gift of Music, created shortly after Bernstein’s passing by director Horant H. Honfeld, who spent two decades following the maestro. This intimate film offers a rare perspective, enriched with archival treasures—interviews, speeches, and excerpts from Bernstein’s landmark Omnibus television series—and was originally presented as part of PBS’s Great Performances.

6:30pm bar/doors open, 7:00pm pre-show talk, 7:30 screening begins

FREE ADMISSION, but registration is required. Register here.

Shelburne Vineyard & OCM present: Project Serenade, Live in Concert

This is a benefit concert to support Project Serenade programming throughout the summer!

Gates open at 7pm, and the concert begins at 7:15pm

Tickets $10-$50

• This is a family friendly event, we have plenty of non-alcoholic drink options 🙂

• Everyone 12 years of age and over needs a ticket

• This event will happen on our lawn, in the event of rain we will move indoors

Project Serenade, a program of the Opera Company of Middlebury's Youth Opera (YOC), was launched mid-pandemic in 2020 by YOC's founder, Sarah Cullins. Every summer since then, Youth Opera singers have brought joy and music to our senior community throughout Chittenden, Washington and Addison counties through concerts of opera and musical theater. Join these stars of the future as they launch this year's concert series and continue this important mission of creating community through song.

OCM’s Young Artist Program presents Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi

Hear the stars of tomorrow in the Opera Company of Middlebury’s Young Artists Program production of Puccini’s hilarious one-act Gianni Schicchi. Eastman Opera Theater’s Pat Diamond directs a cast of 10 up-and-coming professionals and five local talents in a uniquely staged production in Town Hall Theater’s new Doug & Debby Anderson Studio. Coached and conducted by Yale Opera faculty YAP Artistic Director Alejandro Roca, Young Artists also understudy principal roles in the mainstage production of La Bohème and appear in the ensemble.

The production is set mid-century in an upper middle class Italian-American immigrant family who is “living the dream” with cannoli, Dolce and Gabbana, Vespas, and negronis. Their world gets turned upside down when their patriarch Buoso Donati dies and his will is read. Gianni Schicchi, the provincial “country bumpkin” saves the day. . .or does he?

Under the age of 26? Check out our Opera Under 26 program to learn how to get free tickets to the opera!

Staying in town for the event? Historic Waybury Inn is offering 15% off of its room rate (and a free breakfast) to anyone holding a ticket for this event. Contact www.wayburyinn.com to book your room, using the promo code THT1884. Or call 802.388.4015.

ARTISTIC TEAM:

Sarah Cullins, Director of Education & Outreach, Director of Young Artist Program
Alejandro Roca, Young Artist Program Artistic Director
Pat Diamond, Young Artist Program Guest Stage Director
Anne Sutton, Assistant Stage Director

GIANNI SCHICCHI CAST:

Schicchi - Gregory Gropper
Lauretta - Hayley Fox
Zita - Melina Jaharis
Rinuccio - Héctor Camacho Salazar
Gherardo - Orlando Montalvo Avalo
Nella - Hayley Abramowitz
Betto di Signa - Johannes Linneballe
Simone - Andrew Boisvert
Marco - Lifan Deng
La Ciesca - Amanda Cabán

Local Cast:

Maestro Spinelloccio - Jon Isham
Ser Amantio di Nicolao - Nathan Stefani
Gherardino - Soledad Pareja
Pinellino - John-Eric Robinson
Guccio - Isaiah Robinson

OCM Mainstage presents Puccini’s La Bohème!

Director Douglas Anderson reimagines this classic opera as a contemporary urban tale. Puccini's characters are young artists who have come to the big city to make a name for themselves.  "As we all learned in the 70s and 80s," says Anderson, "those ambitions are easily dashed." It's a timeless story of hope, struggle, romance and disappointment, all bathed in the most glorious music ever written. With a superb cast of professional singers from across the country and a full orchestra under the baton of Maestro Filippo Ciabatti. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.

Meet the cast!

Pre-performance lecture with Filippo Ciabatti, Music Director/La Bohème Conductor at 1:00pm in the Anderson Studio in Town Hall Theater’s new wing.

Under the age of 26? Check out our Opera Under 26 program to learn how to get free tickets to the opera!

Staying in town for the event? Historic Waybury Inn is offering 15% off of its room rate (and a free breakfast) to anyone holding a ticket for this event. Contact www.wayburyinn.com to book your room, using the promo code THT1884. Or call 802.388.4015.

Join Conductor Filippo Ciabatti for a pre-performance discussion about OCM's contemporary reimagining of Puccini's beloved La Bohème.

Begins at 1:00pm in the Anderson Studio in Town Hall Theater's new wing.

OCM’s Young Artist Program presents Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi

Hear the stars of tomorrow in the Opera Company of Middlebury’s Young Artists Program production of Puccini’s hilarious one-act Gianni Schicchi. Eastman Opera Theater’s Pat Diamond directs a cast of 10 up-and-coming professionals and five local talents in a uniquely staged production in Town Hall Theater’s new Doug & Debby Anderson Studio. Coached and conducted by Yale Opera faculty YAP Artistic Director Alejandro Roca, Young Artists also understudy principal roles in the mainstage production of La Bohème and appear in the ensemble.

The production is set mid-century in an upper middle class Italian-American immigrant family who is “living the dream” with cannoli, Dolce and Gabbana, Vespas, and negronis. Their world gets turned upside down when their patriarch Buoso Donati dies and his will is read. Gianni Schicchi, the provincial “country bumpkin” saves the day. . .or does he?

Under the age of 26? Check out our Opera Under 26 program to learn how to get free tickets to the opera!

Staying in town for the event? Historic Waybury Inn is offering 15% off of its room rate (and a free breakfast) to anyone holding a ticket for this event. Contact www.wayburyinn.com to book your room, using the promo code THT1884. Or call 802.388.4015.

ARTISTIC TEAM:

Sarah Cullins, Director of Education & Outreach, Director of Young Artist Program
Alejandro Roca, Young Artist Program Artistic Director
Pat Diamond, Young Artist Program Guest Stage Director
Anne Sutton, Assistant Stage Director

GIANNI SCHICCHI CAST:

Schicchi - Gregory Gropper
Lauretta - Hayley Fox
Zita - Melina Jaharis
Rinuccio - Héctor Camacho Salazar
Gherardo - Orlando Montalvo Avalo
Nella - Hayley Abramowitz
Betto di Signa - Johannes Linneballe
Simone - Andrew Boisvert
Marco - Lifan Deng
La Ciesca - Amanda Cabán

Local Cast:

Maestro Spinelloccio - Jon Isham
Ser Amantio di Nicolao - Nathan Stefani
Gherardino - Soledad Pareja
Pinellino - John-Eric Robinson
Guccio - Isaiah Robinson

OCM Mainstage presents Puccini’s La Bohème!

Director Douglas Anderson reimagines this classic opera as a contemporary urban tale. Puccini's characters are young artists who have come to the big city to make a name for themselves.  "As we all learned in the 70s and 80s," says Anderson, "those ambitions are easily dashed." It's a timeless story of hope, struggle, romance and disappointment, all bathed in the most glorious music ever written. With a superb cast of professional singers from across the country and a full orchestra under the baton of Maestro Filippo Ciabatti. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.

Meet the cast!

Pre-performance talk with Douglas Anderson, Artistic Director/La Bohème Stage Director at 6:30pm in the Anderson Studio in Town Hall Theater’s new wing.

Under the age of 26? Check out our Opera Under 26 program to learn how to get free tickets to the opera!

Staying in town for the event? Historic Waybury Inn is offering 15% off of its room rate (and a free breakfast) to anyone holding a ticket for this event. Contact www.wayburyinn.com to book your room, using the promo code THT1884. Or call 802.388.4015.

Join Director Douglas Anderson for a pre-performance discussion about OCM's contemporary reimagining of Puccini's beloved La Bohème.

Begins at 6:30pm in the Anderson Studio in Town Hall Theater's new wing.

OCM Mainstage presents Puccini’s La Bohème!

Director Douglas Anderson reimagines this classic opera as a contemporary urban tale. Puccini's characters are young artists who have come to the big city to make a name for themselves.  "As we all learned in the 70s and 80s," says Anderson, "those ambitions are easily dashed." It's a timeless story of hope, struggle, romance and disappointment, all bathed in the most glorious music ever written. With a superb cast of professional singers from across the country and a full orchestra under the baton of Maestro Filippo Ciabatti. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.

Meet the cast!

Pre-performance lecture with Anne Sutton, Assistant Stage Director, Young Artist Program at 1:00pm in the Anderson Studio in Town Hall Theater’s new wing!

Under the age of 26? Check out our Opera Under 26 program to learn how to get free tickets to the opera!

Staying in town for the event? Historic Waybury Inn is offering 15% off of its room rate (and a free breakfast) to anyone holding a ticket for this event. Contact www.wayburyinn.com to book your room, using the promo code THT1884. Or call 802.388.4015.